Controls Engineer - High-Volume Manufacturing
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Job Location:
Buffalo Grove, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
17-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Controls Engineer is a newly created full-time position based in Buffalo Grove IL. It will provide support and technical expertise in the areas of controls and electronic circuitry in order to achieve safety quality and productivity targets in a medical device manufacturing plant. Primary focus will be on controls improvements and troubleshooting of high volume automated medical device assembly equipment and associated electrical wiring/devices instrument embedded systems motion control and inspection addition it is expected that this individual will assist and provide training to maintenance production or other personnel as needed with technical or troubleshooting related matters. The selected candidate will have experience in the design installation and upkeep of PLC based controls in a manufacturing environment.
What you will be doing:
- Lead or support maintenance teams in troubleshooting elusive problems resulting in downtime or quality issues. Identify and correct causes of chronic equipment failures or issues.
- Assist with development and implementation of plans to achieve highly effective controls troubleshooting and repair while minimizing downtime.
- Provide control of machine software firmware and user access security.
- Propose evaluate risk and implement PLC program and other software/firmware or hardware changes needed to improve safety yield and productivity.
- Completing change control documentation including change documentation risk assessment and justification.
- Define equipment maintenance/preventative maintenance requirements and procedures.
- Identify root-causes of equipment failures and slowdowns develop and implement corrective actions.
- Develop troubleshooting and repair skills of Controls and Automation Technicians.
- Provide on-call support for system outages and incidents.
- Development of User Requirement Specifications for new equipment or equipment updates.
- Work with Automation and Validation Engineers to develop test script to validate software/firmware updates.
- Support commissioning and validation of new equipment and/or implementation and testing of changes to existing equipment.
Qualifications (Required Education Experience etc.):
- A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent coupled at least 3 years of industrial controls experience in high volume manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency programming and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Control Logics PLCs and Human Machine Interface (HMI / GUI )
- Established user of RSLOGIX5000 Logix Designer Studio 5000
- Ability to design fault-tolerant systems with error handling and recovery.
- General understanding of factory LAN/WAN ethernet networks and ability to setup devices with IP addresses or nodes
- Proficiency selecting appropriate circuit protectors wire and cable.
- Experience selecting configuring and installing: sensors safety hardware PLC hardware remote I/O VFDs and instrumentation.
- Knowledge of controls devices and experience troubleshooting.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
DESIRED SKILLS (Ideal/Optional Experience etc.):
- Experience with Vision systems is a plus (Cognex Keyence Fanuc) is a plus.
- Experience programming/troubleshooting Siemens PLC Step7.
- Proficient with: RSLOGIX5000 Logix Designer Studio 5000 Factory Talk SE and Ignition.
- Experience setting up/tuning and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Power-Flex variable frequency drives and Kinetix multi-axis servo drives.
- Working knowledge of:
- Field bus Networks (ProfiNet DeviceNet Ethernet/IP Safety rated field bus networks).
- Radio frequency identification devices (RFID) and all the accompanying components (Receiver antenna puck reader)
- PID tunning and closed feedback loops
- Serial communication (RS-232 RS-422 RS-485 ProfiBus Modbus RTU Data Highway) between PLCs instruments and microcontrollers
- Ethernet communications between machine PLCs and embedded data collection systems
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What youll receive for the great work you provide:
- Full range of medical dental and vision plans
- Life Insurance
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Matching 401(k) Contributions
- Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
Job Category
Production EngineeringIs Sponsorship Available
NoFlex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit qualifications and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age race religion color sex national origin marital status sexual orientation gender identity veteran status disability pregnancy status or any other status protected by law. Were happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email and well discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex you must complete the application process first).
Key Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- CNC Programming
- Lean
- Machining
- Tooling
- CAD
- CNC
- Assembly Experience
- SolidWorks
- Kaizen
- Manufacturing
About Company
Apcoflex Industries L.L.C is a professional international company in thermal insulation materials and Chemical products fields. Mother Company (Arab Projects Company (APCO) Had been established since the year 1990 Due to recent great growth and development of construction business ... View more
